skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favourite anecdote about cow milking robots comes from a consultant who was dealing with them from the other end. It turns out that the udder-recognition software isn't perfect, and fails to find the udder some of the time. Farmers noticed this. Then they noticed that the software release cycle for the robot took more than 10 months.

As that's the gestation period for a cow, they worked out that it would be faster to breed cows with udders that were easier for the existing recognizer to identify, than to wait for the robot manufacturers to upgrade their firmware ...
eh, that's probably truer that most people like to think about.
Actually it is possible - the problem is that you will move the information into your compressor.

I don't know how "universal" this compressor would be though...
It's not just a big photo. If you read the article you would see that these are fantastical works of art made from lots of photos and a lot of photoshop.
Aubrey de Grey on Longevity Science (video)
Contiki: An operating system for the Internet of Things
I would say that step 3 and 5 are basically identical. I'd call 5 the redundant one and scratch it.
Hale-Bopp in 1997 was very nice, as I recall.
I'm confused by your restatement, because it does not restate what I said.

Indeed! I hadn't quite made out what you were trying to say in that post - my statement was not relevant.
It's rather old now, but the talk that he gave at TED in 2006 is a good introduction/overview to SENS:

http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_ag...

The best way to really learn about it is to read his book which contains most of the biology, 'Ending Aging' (amazong has it).
Building For The Enterprise — The Zero Overhead Principle
HN Comments are getting more and more and more meta.
You could always take a mortgage out on the house, rent out the house and live in the van.
Plenty of people living in vans and cars in western ND since housing is such an issue. Heck, I have relatives renting spots on their front lawn and an electrical cord for $900/mo to people with campers.

Their are plenty of interviews on the web about what that is like.
I like the way they show the video, "Exit out" In the upper left corner, anyone know what they use to do this?
How did you get the site to #1 so fast?

On the price, yeah, $400 is low. But then the risk profile of the site is high. Are you in a hurry to get rid of it?
The fun part about reading articles like this is it leaves the reader to play armchair Steve Jobs based more on their own opinion of what they think Steve Jobs was trying to say.

Did he say this because he wanted to see what sort of energy the team had?

An expensive yet utterly lackluster song from a famous director might signal a company that has no real vision.

An inexpensive cheap sound-tech song might signal a team willing to just follow directions and not think.

A comically bad song might indicate a team that isn't serious.

A song from one of Steve's favorite artists might signal a team too eager to please.

Personally, if it was me and I was given another chance I would have gone all out, win or die style and begged/pleaded/bribed someone of actual real world talent to come in and play _during_ the next presentation. Someone with a unique style and talent, real world fame would be absolutely immaterial since Steve has already met everyone famous. Someone like Kaki King (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UqV_5rVTNc).
And by making this sort of behavior more accessible, they're part of the problem, not the solution.
> It is interesting also to note that the ability to lead any kind of normal or predictable life in this fashion is itself a privilege.

My brother's definition of rich is the ability to control your own schedule.
There are plenty of reasons Facebook sucks, but you didn't hit on any of them. The one thing Facebook does well is allow people to share stuff and produce some value to those who receive it.
Mobile Apps Make Less than $500 a month?
The JOBS Act: Goodbye Free Money, Hello Administrative Nightmare
If you want something to scroll into check out http://www.360cities.net/london-photo-en.html
I think this raises another point... shouldn't email be a secure method of communication? Do you think its time for mail servers to start supporting encryption as a default?
>Does it matter . . .

To you, no; to me? No.

The same thing happened to me: Rails 3 came along. My web applications weren't so large that the port would be unreasonable, so I gritted my teeth and came out feeling like I had gained something. (Knowledge, experience, productivity.)

---

For every "you", however, there is someone with a non-trivial Rails 2.x codebase that simply won't invest the time or energy to port it. So they'll keep using it; keep developing libraries for it, keep patching it, etc.

Continue this trend, and I'd imagine you end up with something like the Python2/3 schism.

For an example of what this leads to, look at Rust.

Arch Linux uses Python 3 as the default for /usr/bin/python, Rust (0.3 and it looks like 0.4) fails to compile because LLVM can't stand Python 3. [This is described in the Rust 0.4 release notes. Of course the fix is a simple symlink and an EXPORT= away once you install Python2.]

So you end up with _new and exciting projects_ that require you to install and maintain old tools and libraries. Why? Because eventually _a non-negligible_ number of library maintainers stop trying to hit a moving target.

I'm not saying Rails will _necessarily_ go down that road; but Python has already been there, and the Python 2/3 schism isn't pretty. It's a possibility worth entertaining, anyways.
Is the JOBS Act a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?
I don't think I undertand this right-

Does the collision attacker get a hash of something used for security, and then look for another input that returns the same hash? Isn't it possible that they found the original input? Why is it important that its a collision?
No, the point was his assertion as far as I could tell is that people like me are making vapid products because we aren't giving up our dreams and working at the "next hot startup."
I'm not sure how you interpreted the article to be saying google wallet is an ideal solution. It's still an interface, it's just a different interface. It seems to me that the whole point of the article is that both those interfaces are unnatural, and the ideal interface (aka no interface) is presented by square card case: you enter a cafe, you ask for a coffee, you get a coffee. payment is taken care of without you taking your phone out of your pocket or even thinking about it.
This really got me thinking about the ideas that we can mine from old, neglected systems that lost the marketing battles and are simply considered obsolete now.
This was a very disturbing incident, and I can only hope that it was an isolated incident and not indicative of a larger trend in the startup industry. The demographics are skewed enough as it is when it comes to this industry.
xkcd-style graphs in your language:

- Mathematica: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/11350/xkcd-st...

- Matlab: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12701841/xkcd-style-graph...

- R: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12675147/how-can-we-make-...

- TeX: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/74878/create-xkcd-sty...

I've really enjoyed all these questions! Thanks to the original asker. The TeX ones are especially neat because they are a vector graphic, no image distortion involved.
lol :P i love it when people like you express your wildest evil thoughts openly - but the fact is i couldn't find any viable solution to filter nude images in real-time for a project so i decided write this up using existing algorithms on the web. if you could suggest any better solution would be great
Legacy IPV4 address holders own their number blocks
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Let's suppose, for the sake or argument, that 40% of the population of the "Badlands" are truly evil murderous thieves, who have no compunction firing a pistol into your car as you drive by, and suppose further that every day each one of them partakes of this pastime.

A horrible, dangerous place, seething with evil, yes? Far worse than the reality, no doubt, but let's go with it.

What do you make of the other 60%?
Disagree. I feel e-mail can serve the same purpose but then some would argue the usefulness or value in 'passive' communication.
I downloaded the beta app. I enjoyed the swiping gesture for organizing my email. I found it faster than using a mouse.
The article's statement that these bikes wouldn't get stolen didn't really assure me, so I looked at the stats for my city's bike sharing service. According to one news report:

> One bike went missing the first year and it was later recovered. Last year all were accounted for. This year three or four are missing, but Dossett expects them to turn up.

I suppose the distinctiveness of the bicycles has something to do with it, plus, they're relatively difficult to maneuver.
Apple pushes out first improvements to Maps, restores NYC landmarks
md5? I think you mean md4. There are few examples of md5 collisions: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1224282/92493
I think you read too much into it. He's just saying that "if you think living in a van by yourself would be cool for a while, this is what you can expect." I read nothing more than philosophically slanted curiosity regarding a life that most would rationally choose to avoid (including people without much money).
chris - In the 8/17 post you said there would be a big announcement coming up soon. Any updates on that? I think there was some speculation that it would be Python support - that would be awesome!
FWIW, he could have rented an apartment and showered at home, and the cost would have been to delay retirement by maybe 10% of his tenure.
> Also, what is the difference between the statements "no program can compress every string" and "not every string can be compressed by some program".

The first is true, and you can show this with the pidgeon hole principle. The second isn't true. The reason for this is that you can put different information in each program.

To use the example from recursive below:

> You could do it like this: If the first bit is a 0, remove it.

There's a program that'll work for half of the strings. For the other half, you could use the program "If the first bit is a 1, remove it.".
Programing is power. Why do big tech companies pay $250k for basically a risk-free position to a good programmer? The key is knowing how to apply that power to making money.

When you are young you put in the hours to learn the craft. It's like any craft really, you need to put in a lot of time and effort to get good at it. At the same time you should be learning something about the world and how programming can solve problems in it. Maybe in business or something else. But at any rate, by the time you're 40 you should know how to make programming work for you. You definitely don't want to isolate yourself in a world of code without understanding how it succeeds or fails to provide ROI, otherwise you'll hit 40 and still stuck on the hamster wheel (or at best with a temporary nest egg).
Here's hoping the quick, decisive and very public action by management sends a clear signal.
The domain is an exact match for the term. It's also a .com. That along with some simple SEO work on the site had it to #1 in about 2 months. It was on page 1 pretty much right away.. then floated from 5-2 on the first page until the last 3 weeks or so.
I could see a whole market for those.
Watch Star Wars sometime without the John Williams. Perhaps it would still have had impact at the time, I don't know, but it wouldn't have been the lasting impact it has had. The right music legitimizes and greatly strengthens.
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pan-pan pan-pan pan-pan!

All Stations!
If you consider the majority of new web projects are being made in Rails rather than PHP, I think the comparison applies.

I think the panorama is more diverse nowadays though. Back in the day, you basically had PHP or ASP (with Windows hosting being more expensive), and only higher-end hosting had the option for CGI. Now it's more like an equal split between PHP, .NET, Java (all frameworks), Rails, Python, et all.
No offense but your site doesn't tell me what I'm looking at. I have no idea what it does but I did click around and I still have no idea what it does.
I originally studied computer science but always had an interest in computer programming. Eventually I stumbled on these notes. They gave me the confidence to switch from mechanical engineering to computer science.
We spent our holidays as kids in such a VW and it was fantastic. That article made me miss those days. The holidays where always just a couple of weeks, though, so not like living in a van for good.
Make Things Easy On Yourself
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/jh72ja

What are we doing to make sure this never happens again in the future? Well, even before this incident, we hired a VP of HR who has implemented a sensitivity training program for all employees.

Which was evidently ineffective.
Yep, this is why the prisoners are full to bursting with Bitcoiners.

Who has been put in jail for their own currency that didn't try to use the names of existing currency?
Yeah, hold it and ask the bidder to up their offer. Unless you really need the money. You have to consider why they'd want it too when negotating to feel out their max point. Good luck.
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You have good and valid points that I agree with, I was just arguing was from the standpoint of "Rails / Ruby becoming another PHP"

> I'm not saying Rails will _necessarily_ go down that road; but Python has already been there, and the Python 2/3 schism isn't pretty. It's a possibility worth entertaining, anyways.

I feel the Ruby community is different from Python's. I think people who work with Ruby and/or Rails like new toys and they are willing to adapt in order to keep playing. If anything I feel the bigger danger is for Ruby devs migrating to nice shiny toys that node.js has to offer.
In my experience if you have a situation where an increasing number of developers are going "negative" the core of your problem is not a single "negative" developer who started it but rather something else is very wrong with your organization, usually terrible management or just bad company vision and the person you pin as the "negative" developer was simply the first to catch on.

I will admit there are certainly developers with naturally bad attitudes, but I've never seen their attitude spread unless there was something very wrong with the company to begin with.
Maybe my comment was poorly worded. I'm not legitimately asking why we ever used gold. I agree it makes far more sense than helium or land when traded directly. Once we moved to a paper currency, though, very little of that really mattered anymore. No one cares that oil is bulky when they trade it, because at worst they're moving around pieces of paper (more typically just bits in a system).

My real question is why gold should back our currency now. How does it make sense in a modern economy? We've divorced our currency from any one commodity, and I think that's a very good thing, because it helps to protect us from changes in the price of commodities.
Amazon buying Seattle HQ from Paul Allen for $1.16B
And the gymnastics that you have to go through to stop people from performing arbitrage on the stated ratio of gold:silver versus the market rate is also hilarious.
Mediative Launches a Broad and Flexible Hyper-Local Mobile Advertising Network
Just one thing: If they were the best and brightest, they would not have let themselves lured into Facebook :-) Maybe another reason why not much interesting stuff is coming out of Facebook!
We've had a similar program to this in Germany for some years now:
http://www.callabike-interaktiv.de/

Within inner city limits, you can use your smartphone to get an unlock code (or call a hotline), then use the bike for 8 cents per minute as long as you wish and drop it off anywhere (again, within city limits).
On Not Understanding the Needs of Customers
I cannot make alterations to the environment or put stuff outside, nice thought though.

// ND -40F in winter - not allowed to cut holes in wall and no extra power outside.
Watch Star Wars in ASCII from the command line
Agreed, but this isn't John Williams. Frankly, it sounds like muzak. I don't know exactly what Jobs would have said, but I'm pretty sure his taste was more discriminating than that.

At first I figured it was probably a masterful composer who just wasn't putting a lot of effort into this one-off music video. But then I realize David Feinman's most recognized work is probably "Ace Ventura - When Nature Calls": http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1026545/

Are you fucking kidding me? You're trying to score a moon landing and trying to impress Steve Jobs and... you bring out the composer to an Ace Ventura sequel?!?
> It's presumptuous to imply that one knows what someone else is thinking.

I agree and sympathize. But incidentally, the original use of that phrase was not so presumptuous. In case you (or anyone reading this) don't know, the original quote is from the movie "The Princess Bride", where one character repeatedly says that some possible event would be "inconceivable" and then that event happens--he also exclaims that some events that have just happened are "Inconceivable!". Another character tells him, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." It's "don't think it means", not "doesn't mean": this contains a proper amount of uncertainty for being a deduction about someone's likely thoughts based on observation of their actions.

And, as a matter of fact, cynicalkane's comment was similar: "I don't think [thing] means what you think it means." Also he didn't include an adaptation of the "You keep using that word" part--I would have found that irritating, being an excessive use of movie references that would make nonsensical writing if the movie didn't exist--but cynicalkane's comment flows naturally, and I consider it a proper use of the phrase. I can only assume that you have seen a bunch of other comments using the presumptuous form (if we want to be grumpy old men, we might say "perversion") of the quote, and cynicalkane's comment was similar enough that you thought of the other comments and decided to complain here. (I haven't actually seen the presumptuous form myself, though I'm willing to believe you've seen it enough to be irritated--and a quick google suggests it does have a large presence. I'd probably be annoyed too.)
Ummm, no it doesn't. From the article:

> The bike still need to be returned to designated spots at the end of the ride.
Apple’s Map app could raise antitrust concerns
Too bad, I used to work for them.

They made some major blunders (No Late Fees), you don't drop 30 to 40% percent of your revenue with no plan to replace it.

Should have launched the mail service much sooner, with 9000 thousand stores and a few mailing centers turn around time on mailings could have been comparable or better than netflix.

Rental kiosk with $ 0.99 rentals where not a problem, the fact that they did not have a Blockbuster logo on them was the problem. I don't even remember how many years it took Blockbuster and NCR to design and build a comparable machine.

When it was obvious that Netflix and Redbox were going to be successful there where still other national and regional video rental changes, I think Blockbuster could have bought both without any problems.

IMO opinion of course. I liked the job, it was fun.
"What I learned was that society does not take kindly to seemingly slight deviations from normal."

That's because it isn't efficient for society and people to not jump to conclusions. Nobody is going to take the time to see that your situation is really different then the creep that is living in a van parked outside a school for a different reason.

We hear plenty of stories of how Bill Gates and Jobs didn't shower and of course we know that they ended up fine. But we don't have any data to compare on people that followed the same strategy and didn't end up in a good place because society jumped to it's natural conclusions about people who eschew all social graces.
That's fine if manufacturers state upfront what you are getting when you purchase. If they won't push major software updates, just say so, so I can make an informed decision.

Edit: Strange use of personal pronouns.
Wordpress has After the Deadline and it's opensource http://open.afterthedeadline.com/
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If anyone is interested in watching Jeremy's presentation online it can be found at:

http://medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/1873920417001
#1 is a common assumption, but really condos are a subset of apartments. "Apartment" can refer to a leased unit, a co-op situation, or an owned condo unit. The only thing that defines an "apartment" is that it is a housing unit contained within a larger unit.
Nobody said it would need to be quick.
2 days ago, 71 points, 34 comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4605295

...which is a submission of http://mashable.com/2012/10/02/ew-has-smartphone-inside/
I used to be a fan of this service in Germany for a while. Features are the same (Track it online or grab one from the street, unlock it with your phone, leave it everywhere you want), it's operated by the 'Deutsche Bahn' railway comp.

It was cheap, easy and the bikes were of good quality, plus you can't beat the flexibility of grabbing one of those to meet a friend on the other side of the city.

Great to see that the concept spreads further and further.

) They define a general area in their TOS/contract. You're not supposed to leave it outside of the city limits, for example. You can leave, of course, but need to drive back into the city limits to drop it off.
This also links to an interesting article describing how to create an xkcd self referential chart.

http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/09/07/self-description/
I don't get it. Node.js is for fast, scalable servers that are IO bound. Arduino is for low-level hobby projects like blinking lights and moving motors. They can be part of a larger network of devices, but that's not the point.

My first Arduino project was a TCP server that turned a servo depending on a JSON request (it kinda followed the websocket protocol, without the handshaking). The client was a simple Go app. I understand the possibility for networked Arduino devices, but I think this project misses the point of Arduino development.

Not everything has to be written in JavaScript. The Arduino team has made C++ approachable for beginners, so develop for the Arduino, and you'll learn a lot more.
I just thought the exaggeration of steps was ridiculous and unnecessary. I can already do something similar at local bars, but you still have to include the steps of knowing the bartender, having a running tab, getting your credit card information on file with them in the first place, etc. He conveniently leaves out all of these steps yet includes things like "find the machine".
Still QuickTime for me (Chrome on Mac/Lion) and it doesn't work by default (something with permissions).
The bitcoin network does >20 terahashes per second now in total (but SHA-2, not SHA-1). Those 2^60 hashes would take only 16 hours at that speed.
Thanks for this counterpoint. I've met various beach bums, ski instructors, and summer resort waiters, from all social classes, who were taking a break in this way. Compare also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_year and the concept of a wanderjahr.
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